Re: [gentoo-user] fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?
On 21 Sep 2009, at 17:06, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... To not to involve stdout was the hack! Currently I am running fetchmail via fcron and does what it should since fetchmail directly reports to /dev/null. Sorry to seem like a numptie, but are you saying you fixed it? The problem was solved merely by adding the redirect? I think I will change the whole suff to run in daemon mode, since I think (to be read as: ...not know for sure...) that it is a little bit more performant. Or? I run as user, 2 users, each with their own .fetchmailrc each adding their own entry into their own crontab. I.E. just like you have it now. I have been running my system this way for years. The notion of daemon mode bothers me, because it must be run by root (IIRC) and the various users all put their separate private email passwords in a single file in /etc OTOH, the daemon mode configuration file is readable only by root, and if the root account is compromised then the users' private .fetchmailrc files can be read anywhere. Fetchmail is a bit of a kludge, really. I wouldn't worry too much about being best conformant. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:46:27 +0100, Stroller wrote: The notion of daemon mode bothers me, because it must be run by root Users can run in daemon mode too, although that means you'll have one daemon running for each user. (IIRC) and the various users all put their separate private email passwords in a single file in /etc You can omit the passwords from fetchmailrc and include them in individual user's .netrc files,according to the man page. If you do not specify a password, and fetchmail cannot extract one from your ~/.fetchmailrc file, it will look for a ~/.netrc file in your home directory before requesting one interactively; if an entry matching the mailserver is found in that file, the password will be used. Fetchmail first looks for a match on poll name; if it finds none, it checks for a match on via name. -- Neil Bothwick Unsupported service (adj): Broken (see Demon) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?
On 20 Sep 2009, at 16:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... When using the line: @ 5 fetchmail -a nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded with fetchmail -a from the commandline. Here my crontab says: 0-59/4 * * * */usr/bin/fetchmail /dev/null 21 I suggest trying the full path, but you may also be able to redirect to somewhere other than /dev/null perhaps see something useful? Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk [09-09-21 17:13]: On 20 Sep 2009, at 16:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... When using the line: @ 5 fetchmail -a nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded with fetchmail -a from the commandline. Here my crontab says: 0-59/4 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail /dev/null 21 I suggest trying the full path, but you may also be able to redirect to somewhere other than /dev/null perhaps see something useful? Stroller. Ha! :) To not to involve stdout was the hack! Currently I am running fetchmail via fcron and does what it should since fetchmail directly reports to /dev/null. I think I will change the whole suff to run in daemon mode, since I think (to be read as: ...not know for sure...) that it is a little bit more performant. Or? Thanks for the help! :) Keep hacking! mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
[gentoo-user] fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?
Hi, I have used for testing the following combo: Configured fetchmail for my user account and configured procmail to deliver the mail. I called fetchmail by hand: It works. In my fetchmailrc there is the line mda /usr/bin/procmail -d %T as said: When started by hand everything is fine. Also fcron is installed and my personal fcrontab contains the line: @ 5 mrxvt -fn 10x20 -display :0.0 -g 30x5+0+0 -e dialog --yesno TEST 10 30 which also works: Every five minutes a dialog box pops up. BUT! When using the line: @ 5 fetchmail -a nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded with fetchmail -a from the commandline. May be I am a little overhacked today...but what the hack I am doing wrong here? Thank you very much for any help in advance! mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
Re: [gentoo-user] fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 17:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: When using the line: @ 5 fetchmail -a nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded with fetchmail -a from the commandline. May be I am a little overhacked today...but what the hack I am doing wrong here? Are you sure the cron job runs? Check the logs. Or try adding: */5 * * * * fetchmail -a in your cron file. Ward
